In 2015 Alexander Kondov, principal engineer at News UK, adopted Node.js as he considered its JavaScript’s ability to run both in the browser and the server an important feature that could enable his team. Based on his learning, he created the Tao of Node, which “contains proven rules and guidelines to build better applications.”
Node’s permissiveness to reuse libraries, logic, and types across front-end and back-end applications gave rise to the “full-stack developer” archetype: an engineer skillful enough to work on any part of the application they are needed.
